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Ebola survivors comfort sick children in Congo's isolation wards

Jerkis Mahamba, 29, a Congolese Ebola survivor turned caregiver, talks through the glass window of an isolation ward to Kambale Syavula Volonte, the uncle of a hospitalized child, at the Ebola Treatment Center of the Kitatumba Reference Hospital, in Kitatumba neighborhood and medical hub in Butembo, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, October 28, 2026. REUTERS/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere

Bangladesh death toll from dengue rises, unlikely to ease before December

The dengue outbreak has killed 418 people and led to more than 133,000 hospital admissions in 2026 as of Oct 30, according to health ministry data.

Protesters kill longtime nurse treating Ebola patients in Congo

Kenya releases first Ebola contacts from quarantine, milestone in containment efforts

Students walk near the National Police Service Hospital, one of the hospitals housing a unit for Ebola isolation and treatment, in Nairobi, Kenya, October 21, 2026. REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi

Moving target: How mistrust is fuelling a deadly Ebola hotspot in east Congo

A nurse at the Kitatumba Ebola treatment center disinfects himself after treating an Ebola patient at the facility run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), as aid agencies intensify efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak involving the Bundibugyo species, in Butembo, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo, September 23, 2026. REUTERS/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere

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Cyclosporiasis outbreak exposes a weakened US public health system

FILE PHOTO: Lettuce grows on a farm near Salinas, California, U.S., August 11, 2026. REUTERS/Fred Greaves/File Photo

WHO's Tedros says Ebola response must be scaled up to tackle Congo outbreak

FILE PHOTO: Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tours the Evangelical Medical Center (CEM), one of the facilities at the forefront of the response to the Ebola outbreak during his visit to coordinate the response to the Ebola outbreak, as agencies intensify efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus strain, in Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 31, 2026. REUTERS/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere/ File Photo

Attacks on healthcare in conflict zones averaging more than four a day in 2026, World Health Organization says

FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises during an Israeli raid at Al Shifa hospital and the area around it, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Gaza City, March 21, 2024. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas/File Photo

Gaza cancer patients face rising death rate amid Israeli curbs, doctors say

Displaced Palestinian cancer patient Khuloud Abu Sahmoud, 33, sitting with her children in an UNRWA school where she is sheltering in the southern Gaza Strip, on Aug 8.

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